Published:
Monday, November 25, 2013
The ACLU of Washington has many wonderful interns who assist with our work. We would like you to meet some of them.
Henry Seeley has always had a high regard for the ACLU, and chose to intern here because he considers it the best organization for getting good work done. As he puts it, “The ACLU pushes back against those who ignore civil liberties in the pursuit of efficiency of government, politics, religion, protecting children. Whatever the cause, if they ignore people in the process, the ACLU is there to fight for them.”
Henry is proud to be a part of this organization and his work on legal intake – particularly when he gets a call from someone interested in our Second Chances program, which provides legal assistance to people with criminal records posing obstacles to finding housing or employment. He feels like he is really making a difference in the lives of these individuals, being able to send them directly to an ACLU expert for help.
A University of Washington senior, Henry is researching immigrants’ rights and how deportation affects families for his honors degree in Law, Societies and Justice. He is excited about the ACLU-NW Immigrant Rights Project’s recent victory on the Olympic Peninsula, in which a court found that prolonging law enforcement stops of individuals to hand over to the Border Patrol is illegal; it is awesome, he says, to be a part of “real work getting done that affects lots of people and is wide-reaching.”
Henry will be taking the Law School Admission Test (aka the LSAT) in December and hopes to attend law school at Berkley or Stanford next year; he is looking forward to returning to the Bay area where he grew up. He hopes to focus on privacy and patent law because he wants to get involved in the evolving law of new technology. He wants to help create new law to protect the rights of individuals and personal privacy.
